Reflections on the Societal Conditions for the Pervasiveness of Entrepreneurial Behavior in Western Societies

Brandl, Julia; Bullinger, Bernadette

doi:10.1177/1056492608329400

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“…Moreover, though the model is designed as an analytic framework to theorize institutions among abstract ideals, knowledge systems and professional roles and practices (e.g. Brandl & Bullinger, 2009;Hasselbladh & Bejerot, 2007), it risks stopping at the level of description. Although the model is widely used in specific topic communities (e.g.…”

Section: Institutions As Ideals Discourses and Techniques Of Controlmentioning

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Agency and Institutions inOrganization Studies

Abdelnour

Hasselbladh

Kallinikos

2017

Organization Studies

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Agency and institutions are essential concepts within institutional theory. In this Perspectives issue, we draw on a select group of Organization Studies articles to provide an overview of the topic of agency and institutions. We first consider different ways of defining agency and institutions and examine their implications for institutional theory. We then analyse the relationship of actors and institutions through four lenses -the wilful actor, collective intentionality, patchwork institutions and modular individuals. Our analysis leads us to dissociate agency from individuals and view it as a capacity or quality that stems from resources, rights and obligations tied to the roles and social positions actors occupy. Roles and social positions are institutionally engineered. It is social actors qua occupants of roles and positions (not individuals) that enter the social 'stage' and exercise agency.

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Section: Institutions As Ideals Discourses and Techniques Of Controlmentioning

confidence: 99%

Agency and Institutions inOrganization Studies

Abdelnour

Hasselbladh

Kallinikos

2017

Organization Studies

120

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“…These authors mainly refer to the geographical context, while no studies which take into account the specific type of business are currently available. This represents a quite surprising and serious gap in the literature, since it is reasonable to consider the specificities of any business as crucial elements influencing individuals' motivations and goals (Brandl & Bullinger, 2009) and thus their intentions. Schlaegel and Koenig (2014) suggest that how beliefs, attitudes and perceptions interact and influence entrepreneurial intentions is still far from clear.…”

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“…However, most articles refer to the geographical context, while no studies that take into account the specific type of business are currently available. This represents a surprising gap, since it is reasonable to consider the specificities of any business as crucial in influencing elements of individuals' motivations and goals (Brandl & Bullinger, 2009). …”

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Why Do Life Scientists Decide to Become Entrepreneurs? The Role of Motivations

Paola

Spanó

Vona

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IJBM

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The linkage between entrepreneurial ideas and actions continues to be central to the entrepreneurship debate. However, the possible implications of the various entrepreneurial motivations for the process are still largely understudied. On this basis, our study aims to contextualise the theoretical model linking entrepreneurial intentions, motivations and actions, with particular reference to academic entrepreneurship within the Life Sciences. We use the qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) set-theoretic method to process data gathered amongst 25 scholars active in the Life Sciences context. We carried out the analysis in two steps. The first reveals that a condition which determines entrepreneurial intentions is the absence of normative beliefs together with the presence of control beliefs. In contrast, the research highlights that the entrepreneurial intentions are able to determine the entrepreneurial action. However, as the second step shows, these alone are not sufficient and need to be complemented by extrinsic motivations, that is, those correlated to external incentives/benefits (above all of an economic nature). Our findings offer interesting insights into the whole phenomenon, revealing that the reference to specific contexts may well determine implications which differ from those already detected in the literature, with undeniable effects in terms of managerial and policy implications.

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“…In individualistic cultures, personal goals and achievements are valued above those of groups in which a person is a member (Hofstede, 1980;Rothwell, 1999Rothwell, /2010, and this is likely to enhance the attractiveness of solo entrepreneurship (Brandl & Bullinger, 2009). Even within individualistic cultures, differences in attitudes and values associated with social class membership may affect preferences for solo entrepreneurship.…”

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“…Our approach reflects theoretical arguments about the utility of examining entrepreneurship as an institution (Brandl & Bullinger, 2009;Tolbert, David, & Sine, 2010) and dovetails with recent work in institutional theory emphasizing the need to understand how a general institution may vary in specific ways over time and in different locations (Ansari, Fiss, & Zajac, 2010). We begin by briefly summarizing the logic of this broad theoretical framework and reviewing a number of independent streams of work on entrepreneurship with the aim of showing how an institutional perspective helps link these currently disparate streams.…”

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